The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-05-25
Weekly News Summary.
Vermont.

Memorial day address at Royalton.
The Vermont Medical Society holds its
sem-annual meeting at st. Johnsbury June
23d and oath.
REV. j. II. BABBrrT of Swanton is en-
gagged to deliver the Memorial day address
at Wells River.
AT Highgate Springs the hotels and sum-
mer houses are being put in readiness for
the seasons business.
SYLVESTER GREEN, a man living just out
side the corporation limits of Bennington,
hanged himself in his barn Saturday
A HOUSE and barn in st. Adams owned
by Edward Vayo of Lowell, Mass, were
burned Saturday night Loss 81, 800.
IT is announced that Mrs Raymond, bet
ter known as Annie Louise Cary, will spend
a portion of the summer with friends in
Rutland.
CAPTAIN CoNGER and Lieutenants Thomp-
son and Mooney of the Barlow Grays, st.
Albans, have resigned their respective
positions.
THE governor has appointed Hon. Fred
f. Smith of Montpelier member of the
committee on designs for the Gettysburg
monuments.
BURGLARS entered Rands store in Water
ford, Thursday, and took several watches,
revolvers, chains and other articles to the
value of 5000.
THE death of Hon. Henry Lane of Corn
wall was probably caused by neuralgia of
the heart. His funeral was largely attended
last Thursday.
DIR. F. S. HUTCHINSON & Co. of Enos-
burgh Falls have sold one-thrd inter-
est in their Anti-Apoplectine " business
to G. L. Marsh.
WILLIAM PERKINS. while shingling barn
in Danvlle last week, backed off from the
end of the roof and fell twenty-eight feet,
receiving fatal injuries.
CLARENCE WESTON, son of S. II. Weston
of Winooski, swallowed a dose of paris
green, with suicidal intent, on recovering
from debauch, but will live.
JUDGE w. &. VEAzEY of Rutland has
been appointed a member of the Grant
memorial committee, in place of George w.
Hooker of Brattleboro, resigned
H. A. DEBERvILLE of Burlington was
suffocated by gas at the Bates House,
Rutland, Wednesday night, and died Friday
night. He was twenty-three years old and
unmarried.
JULIA KERRIGAN of Scranton, Pa, aged
twenty two was arrested at New York
Thursday on kilograms from Windsor,
charging her with the murder of her baby
in that place.
BURLINGTON is to be favored with a season
of comic opera this summer, The Acme
Opera Company has engaged the Howard
Opera-house for an indefinite period, begin
ming July 18th.
AT the meeting of the presiding elders of
the Methodist church, in ST. Johnsbury, it
was decided to hold a holiness-meeting, to
be followed by a camp-meeting, at Norris
vile for the st. Adams district about the
middle of August The meetings will last
two weeks.
THE twenty-sixth anniversary of the de-
parture of the Second Vermont Regiment
from Vermont for the front will be cele-
hrata6 nv q ra1pioO of tho survivors Of tba
regiment in Burlington June DIST Colonel
Charles H. Joyce of Rutland will deliver
the address,
Mrs. A. T. NEwcoMB, president of the
Vermont department of the Woman's Re-
lief Corps, assisted by Mrs. Hunt of Brooks
Adams, Friday, and organized Woman's
Relief Corps numbering between twenty
and thirty charter members.
THE new baseball grounds at Rutland
were formally opened last Thursday with
an exhibition game between Rutland and
ST. Adams. The latter won by score of
eleven to nine The return game, played
Saturday, was also won by the st. Adams
club by score of eighteen to ten.
MANAGER AYERS of the Vermont Con-
struction Company, which has contracted to
build the Canada Atlantic extension from
Lacolle to Alburgh, believes that the sums
required from the towns of Clarenceville
anu <AlDulSu Will NC
$4,000 of the $4,000 asked of the former is
subscribed.
AT the prize-speaking contest, Friday
night, in Burlington by members of the
sophomore and freshman classes Max l..
Powell, son of Auditor Powell of Richford
took the third prize with Blaine's Eulogy on
Garfield. The first and second prizes were
awarded to G. F. Ferrin and George Y. Bliss,
respectively.
GENERAL w. w. CIRCUIT has kindly re-
membered the G. A. r. Post at Barton
Landing by furnishing gavel for its use
made from tree cut in front of the place of
the famous charge of Pickett's brigade. The
head of the gavel is turned out so as to ex-
pose to view a mnie-ball, which the tree
took instead of some soldier.
A YOUNG man by the name of Pinney,
residing in Colchester, received letter
by mistake addressed to Mrs. Finney Of
Winooski, containing a check for $3j. He
wrote A. G.. Whittemore of Burlington, the
maker of the document, for the money,
signed Mrs. Finney's name and obtained
the money. Later the forgery was discov-
cred and the money recovered but as yet he
has not been prosecuted.
JUDGES WHEELER AND WALLACE decided
to adjourn the United States court which
convened at Windsor last week Tuesday,
there being no money to pay witnesses, ow-
ing to the failure of the deficiency bill to
become law. In the libel case of L. Br-
ney Lamson of Hinsdale, n. H., against
Editor Shanks of the Londonderry SITTER, on
motion of defendant the case was ordered
to be dismissed for want of jurisdiction.
WILLIAM III. McGAFFEy died in Lyndon,
the l4th, at the age OF siXty-nine. He had
shock in August, 1885, a second month
afterward, and the third, which resulted in
his death, on the 14th. Mr.. McGafey started
in mercantile business in Lyndon in 1876,
and for forty-one years had carried on bust
in fInu afD Hot al
the town in the legislature and had served
as town auditor for quarter OF century.
THE boiler in the steam saw-mill at North
Williston exploded last week, partially
wrecking the mill, blowing one end of the
building completely out and doing consid-
cradle damage otherwise Fortunately none
of the workmen were near the boiler when
the explosion occurred but an employe
some distance away was slightly injured by
flying debris. The mill was the property of
John Whitcomb and the damage will be at
least 81 800.
A BURLINGTON man still believes in the
Lake Champlain sea-serpent, in spite of w.
II. H. Murray's explanation of the appear
ance This believer says: My glass, I'M
like Mr.. Murray's, showed no vibratory
motion at ALL but a resistless onward sweep;
no difference in color at all, but an I'M
broken line of white; no curves at all, but
all motions at as perfect angles as geometry
ever knew. And his bird theory does not
explain the disappearance, and how it was
that the line of white was four to six feet
deep, so to speak, extending down TO and
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